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FRUIT LIFTER.

No. 352.736. Patnted Nov. 16, 1886.-

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN E. oOLEs, OF NEw YORK, N. Y.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 352,736, dated November 16, 1886.

7 Application filed June 2t), 1886. Serial No. 206,643. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN E. (Jones, a citizen of the United. States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Fruit-Lifters, ofrwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to instruments forloosening and lifting packed fruit in a driedstate; and the object of my improvement is to pro vide an implement which on being forced into the hardened mass will separate or cut it in the form of thin layers,which are readily lifted in solid pieces, and without clogging the instrument-I 4 In the accompanying drawings, which fully serve to illustrate my improvement, Figurel represents a front elevation of an implement for cutting and raising dried fruit,constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a top plan view,'of the same.

a is a long shank, provided at its upper end with a handle, I). The lower end of theshank is formed into two or more coils, a, which are of the same diameter, and terminate in a pointed end, 01. From the shank a, above the coiled portion, project two prongs, e (2. These prongs project horizontally in the same plane from each side of the shank a,in the line of the axis of the same, for some distance, then bend on a semicircle, and spread outward from the shaft and from each other; so that the ends or extremities of theprongs stand at'the greatest distance from line of the shanka, as is clearly shown by Fig. 3. Both of these-prongs have fiat oval-shaped ends f f, which are'provided with a cutting-edge, g. The prong e is of greater length than the prong e, and its cutting end is on a lower plane, (see Fig. 1,) so thatin operatin'gthe implement one prong will out at a point below the other.

draws with it the prongs e e,whioh will pene- 5 trate on different planes, and thus cutthe mass in a layer-like form into two layers of fruit,

Y that are raised as theimplementis withdrawn.

.1 am aware that it is not new, broadly, to

such former instance referred to the arms are of the same length, and do not lie in different planes horizontally, and, besides, their extremities are turned inward toward the stem,

rather than projecting outwardly from the same in Opposite directions. My invention differs from the one referred to, in that while the spirally-formed end of the stem is operating to separate the central portion of the mass of fruit, the arms are acting to divide thesurrounding portions of the mass in different planes and varying extent, and it is evident therefrom that the mass will be much more quickly and easily divided or loosened.

WVhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

In a fruit-lifting device of the character described, the combination, with the stem spirally formed at its lower end and provided with suitable operating-handle, of two curved arms secured to and projecting from the stem in oppositedirections, the said arms being of varying length and being in different planes horizontally, substantiallyas shown, and for the purposes set forth.

JOHN E. ooLEs.

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